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SOUTH’S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1921.
PAGE THREE
J. J. HARDEWAY
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OTTO’S LOAN OFFICE
All loans strictly confidential. Watches and Jeweiry re-
paired. Bargains in unredeemed pledges. Money loaned on
Watches, Clothes, Pistols, Sewing Machines and Diamonds.
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Phone Preston 1459
Res. Phone Hadley 3282
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REAL ESTATE LOANS AND INVESTMENTS
I Handle Bargains Only
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DIAMOND
• NOTES
The pinch single has more percent-
age In it than the home run.
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George Kelly made his first home
run In the major leagues on Septem-
ber 7, 1919.    ,
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Watchful waiting is the only way
fans can dope the Babe liuili George
Kelly home-run race.
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Propaganda for summer baseball j
for    college    players    is rapidly being
fanned    into    a    blaze.
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The Rochester club has released
Pitcher George (Polly) Snyder to Suf-
folk of the Virginia lengtie.
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A microscopic study of George
Kelly's home run style reveals the
painful fact that lie Is flat-footed.
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Rookie pitchers in the big leagues are
unable to curve the new bulls as much
as they did the old ones in the minors.
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To make the Indians see red, men-
tion Red Faber's hair. Faber held the
world champions to two hits and beat
them.
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Anyhow, with the White Sox down
where they are, they can't accuse
.Judge I.andis of favoring the home
team.
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Perhaps one reason why Rill Rari-
den decided to sign up with the Reds
is that the cold snap wronged his
peach orchard.
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Leslie M. Kibble, a right-handed
pitcher from the University of Ver-
mont, has been signed for trial by the
Washington club.
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Manager Frank Owen of St. Joseph
is planning a trip to Japan and China
with a team of Western league ball
players next winter.
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Baseball, we are told, was Invented
in 1839 bv a gent named Doubleday.
It was almost wrecked in 1919 by a
gewt named Doublecross.
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Pitcher Ed Rommel of the A’s
throws three speeds—a alow ball, a
slower one and a dead stop. No, Mr.
Autolst, there's no reverse.
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A dark hors$ Is bothering the Amer-
ican league pennant choices. The
name of the nag Is the game as the
first President of our country.
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Reading fang have decided to call
, their team the Aces, for want of some-
thing else. It’s not original and
doesn’t mean anything anyway.
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It Is costing Helnle Groh money to
nurse his dtginity. Helnle could he
drawing a $12,000 salary from the
Reds If he was tougher skinned.
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Critics who have seen Connelly work
In the Yankees’ outfield are declaring
that all Boh Connery said about the
youngster from the Western league Is
right.
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The first grand cleanup hit of the
International season was by Bill Hol-
den of Baltimore, who got a homer
with three on in the opening game with
Toronto.
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Wally Schang, taken by the Yankees
from the Red Sox because it was be-
lieved he would add more punch to
the Yanks, went 25 times to bat before
lie finally got a safe hit.
Old Holzapfel’s Jar
of Peaches
By HAZEL SMITH.
WORLD’S RECORD IS BROKEN
HUBERT’S *
For
General Blacksmithing
and
AUTO REPAIRING
Notre Dame Timber Topper Clips
Two-Fifths of Second From
Mark Made by Watt.
A. G. Desch of Notre Dame, clipped
two-fifths of a second from the world’s
record in the 440-yard hurdle event nt
the Penn relay games at Franklin
field, Philadelphia. The Notre Dame
timber topper finished in 53 4-5s sec-
onds which is two-fifths of a second
better than the mark made by Watt
A. G. Desch of Notre Dame.
of Cornell, in the same games last
year. Desch finished third In the
400 meter hurdles at the Olympic
games. He Is considered one of the
best hurdlers ever developed in this
country.
(©, 1321, Western Newspaper Union.)
People said that old Rogers was a
miser, hut that statement was incor-
rect. Rogers had been a miser. He
had scraped and hoarded during thirty
years of labor, so that now, though
he was barely fifty years of age, lie
looked older. But Rogers had retired
three months before, thanks to some
wisely made investments, and now,
with fifteen thousand dollars at his
disposal, he was still living on in his
little two-room fiat on the Last side
of New York, and trying to stretch
his cramped imagination and plan his
life anew.
Bitterly lie regretted that lie was
an old bachelor without a friend or
wife, sweetheart or child.
Rogers hud gone to the delicatessen
store of his acquaintance, Holzapfel,
to buy something for supper. He
cooked ■ his own supper upon a tiny
stove in his apartment.
“I think,” he said after he had made
his purchases, ‘‘that I'll take some pre-
served fruit.”
“Why, Rogers, you're becoming a
spendthrift, a regular spendthrift,”
said Holzapfel jestingly.
Rogers patronized tlie old German
from long habit.
“Well, I’ve got some preserved
peaches," said the old fellow. "But
they wasn’t put up yesterday, Rogers.
I’ll let you have them for a dime.
They’re home-grown, and they're worth
twenty-live—if they was fresh.”
Rogers took the peaches and walked
out of tlie store.
The peaches were bad. But that
fact had nothing to do with the case.
For inside tlie jar was a little folded
square of oiled paper. And in tills
was a folded piece of paper on which
was written :
“Lucy Morrell, Egan, N. Y.”
That compensated old Rogers for
the loss of the peaches. It was one
of those little harmless pranks played
by country girls who put their names
into bottles of fruit preserved by them
and destined to go long distances and
full into strangers' hands. Often they
had led to correspondence and some-
times to romance.
Old Rogers racked his brain. He
could not remember anyone in Egan
named Morrell.
But that evening the loneliness of
his flat oppressed his spirit; and the
very word Egan, written out on the
paper, made him homesick for the lit-
tle town. In the end he sat down and
wrote:
“Lucy Morrell: I found your note
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In the peaches.
Days passed; old Rogers resumed
the tenor of his life. He had not |
found the courage to break loose j
from his surroundings. But about1
a week later tlie postman left a letter
In his box. It was the first he had |
received for months, except bank no- j
tlces and bills. It was addressed to
him in a delicate, feminine writing,
und inside he read:
"Dear Friend:    “I got your letter,
but you didn’t say how you liked the
pouches.”
That was the beginning of a cor-
respondence, and it brought a new
happiness into old Rogers’ heart.
He hud asked for her photograph,
but she hail not sent it, nor alluded
to the mailer again.
She wrote less often. But one day
came a despairing note in wdiich she
confessed something perilously like
love. And then old Rogers knew
that he had no alternative. So he
wrote back, a wild letter such as he
would not have been capable of a
year before, in which lie told her.
Then a week passed, and then Her
answer came, and it said simply:
"Come up to Egan. The third house
from the depot.    LUCY.”
On that same afternoon old Rogers
drew his money from the hank. Then
lie turned his hack upon Thirteenth
street forever and set forth for Egan.
He reached tlie little place at five
on an autumn afternoon. It had not
changed as lie had expected.
He descended at the depot and
walked slowly toward the cottage. So
lie passed through, the latched gate
anil knocked at the door. A pleasant,
gentle-looking lady of about forty
years opened to him.
“I am James Rogers,” said the vis-
itor simply. "I have come to see your
daughter.” He said tlie last word with
a tone of interruption. Yet lie felt
sure that this was Lucy’s mother.
This was. Just such a mother as he
would have expected Lucy to have.
And yet It was strange that she had
never mentioned her in her letters.
“I am Lucy Morrell," she said, trem-
bling.
Old Rogers looked at her Incredu-
lously, and then took her in his arms
and kissed her.
He knew then that he loved her the
more truly because she brougtit to
him a mind ripened by experience
and a love whose strength was only
the deeper for the passing of the
years. And she had feared as he had
feared, when the correspondence, be-
gun in jest, had ended in earnest.
And then his letter had come!
"But there’s one thing I can’t un-
derstand, dearest,” lie said that eve-
ning, as they sat before the fire.
“Why did you write your name on the
paper and put in the bottle of
peaches? I could imagine that of you
as a young girl, but not now'.”
“My dear," she answered, smiling,
“I bottled those peaches 20 years ago.”
“Heaven bless old Holzapfel!” wa*
Rogers’ remarkable ejaculation.
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PREPARATIONS
For SKIN and
HAIR are the re-
3ult of years of ex-
periment and study
by me.
1> , J. ugSHF    Tlie fact that I
am a graduate In
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GUARANTEE
that tlie best
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In less than a year on the market
these goods have followed this IN-
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Hair ruined by nature or harmful
preparations responds readily to my
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a fine gloss and Is nearly smokeless.
USE these preparations and you will
catch the smile:
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Velvet    Brown    Hair Grower.......52
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Agents wanted. Liberal commission.
Information given and orders filled by
DR. FRANK J. HAWKINS
M. D., D. D. S.
SUITE 102, PYTHIAN TEMPLE,
DALLAS, TEXAS
NEW BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE.
All these houses arc sanitary, with
hath and electric lights. None are
more than a block from the car line.
One 6-rooin house on Hadley Ave.
One 5-room house on Broadway, cor-
ner, $500 down.
One 5-room house on Bell Ave., $750
down.
Two 6-room houses on Hutchins St.,
$500 down.
One 2-story 7-rooin house on St. Emaiv-
iiel St., $500 down.
One 6-room house on Davis St., $500
down.
One 4-room house on Davis Street,
$500 clown.
One 5-room house on Meadow St.,
$500 down.
Two 4-room houses on St. Claire St.,
$600 down.
Three 8-room houses on Hardcastle
St., $400 down.
I will build you a brand new house,
from the ground up, for $400 down.
Get busy and see me about these
houses if you want one.
Robert’s Real Estate, 807% Prairie
Ave., Phone Preston 6307, Houston,
Texas.
COLORED PEOPLE
SHOULD BUY FROM
RACE’S ADVERTISERS
The Informer wishes to call our peo-
ple’s attention to the fact that there
are several stores in Houston that do
not cater to nor care for the colored
people’s patronage, and when our peo
pie enter these stores they are in-
variably given a "cold shoulder.”
To avoid this uncalled for humilia-
tion and unnecessary embarrassment,
peruse the columns of your colored
newspapers and unless you see busi-
ness places advertising with some de-
gree of regularity and consistency in
your papers, stay out of those stores
and urge your friends to do like wise.
Any store that desires and appre-
ciates the race’s patronage will adver-
tise in colored newspapers, and when
they do not advertise in papers pub-
lished by our racial group, it is prima
facie evidence that your patronage is
not wanted, and it is up to us to make
ourselves conspicuous by our absence
Then, too, don’t purchase your mer-
chandise in these "holes in the walls"
and 2x4 joints, who, like the Dead Sea,
take in everything and give out noth-
ing.
The time has arrived for the colored
people to have some racial self-respect
and stop spending their money with
merchants who are base ingrates and
mercantile hogs.
Head the advertisements In all is-
sues of your race newspapers and then
SUBSCRIBERS,
TAKE NOTICE!
Whenever a blue X appears on
your paper or wrapper, it means
that you are in arrears with your
subscription, and unless you remit
at once your paper will be discon-
tinued. This is a postal rule and
regulation with which all papers
must comply.
Again, don’t ask us to continue
sending the paper when you owe us
for same. It takes money to make
our wheels turn.
Furthermore, don’t ask us to put
your .iame on our subscription list
with that “I’ll-pay-you-ih-a-few-days”
stuff. All subscriptions must be
paid CASH IN ADVANCE.
HARRY ASTOLFO
BIG TREE SHOE
REPAIR SHOP
Shoe repairing our
specialty. Let us tend
to your sole and get
you heel-ed.
2816* NANCE ST.
practice the doctrine of business reci-
procity by patronizing only those mer-
chants and business institutions that
carry ads in your journals.
It is a serious reflection upon our
race to continue to enrich men who
do not care a rap for nor appreciate
our trade, and if we would only em-
ploy a little gray matter and make a
few sacrifices by foregoing such pur-
chases, even if they are in the shape
of bargains, and go elsewhere and
throw our support to those merchants
who throw some of their support to
our race’s enterprises we will be
committing an act that will have a
three fold blessing.
Get Busy With The Mail!
(By the Associated Negro Press.)
In this hour of drastic political moves, every organization and
every individual in the United States, North, South, East and
West, should get busy with the mail in letters of protest and
action, without further notice.
WRITE LETTERS OF PROTEST AGAINST LILY WHITE
ACTION TO:
President Warren G. Harding, White House.
Chairman Will H. Hays, Republican National Committee, Mun-
sey Building.
Senator Medill McCormick, chairman Senatorial Campaign
Committee, United States Senate.
Congressman Simeon D. Fess, chairman Congressional Cam-
paign Committee, House of Representatives.
FOR INFORMATION AND CO-OPERATION WRITE;
The Associated Negro Press, Washington Bureau, Whitelaw
Hotel, 13th and T Streets, N. W.    .    , - -- r - -
The Committee on 'Legislative Relief, 1216 Pennsylvania Ave-
nue.
The National Negro Press Association, 906 You Street, N. W.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
1816 Twelfth Street, N. W.
All the above addresses are in Washington, D. C.
FOR MEN ONLY
UOMTTOl'Ib
JOHNSONS SffiTOF
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We will straighten your
hair for $1.50.
Johnson’s Hair Dressing is ex-
cellent for dandruff. It softens
the hair and gives it a glossy col-
or. Give it a trial; you will get
wonderful results. 50c per box.
We carry a full line of Ci-
gars, Cigarettes, Tobacco,
Chewing Gum; also Jewelry.
LINCOLN BARBER
SHOP
J. JOHNSON, Prop.
Dr. C. A. George, D. D. S.    Bee. Phone Had. 3556
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
DR. C. A. GEORGE
DENTIST
For High Class Dental Service
Work Done by Appointment.
8ulte 201-4 Lincoln Theatre Bldg.,
Phone Preston 5128
711 Prairie Avenue
HOUSTON, TEXAS
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Houston College
SUMMER SCHOOL
AND
SUMMER NORMAL
Term Begins June 8th and Closes August 12, 1921
Instructions in all courses necessary for cer-
tificates of all grades, including permanents,
by an efficient corps of teachers.
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Credit will also be given for work done
toward building on certificates.
E. D. PIERSON, Conductor,
Phone Preston 2i18.
M. J. JOHNSON, Principal.
I. M. TERRELL, President,
Phone H. 1867 or H. 2642.
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